Sentence examples for retains autonomy from inspiring English sources

A British colony until its return to China in 1997, Hong Kong retains autonomy from the mainland in its immigration system and its rule of law.

What makes Berlin different from other big European cities is that all these projects are orchestrated not directly by the city but a separate limited company, called Kulturprojekte Berlin, which mostly uses the city's money but retains autonomy in the commissioning process.

Roche has said Genentech's research and early clinical trial operations will retain autonomy so the culture can be preserved.

This means that the smaller agencies retain autonomy and responsibility, but also contribute to a larger objective.

Under the agreement, municipal bodies in the Serb-majority north will retain autonomy in matters like health care and education.

Fiennes describes his version of Rome as a power state, and the Volscians as an older community struggling to retain autonomy.

Under the hand-over agreement, Hong Kong retained autonomy to negotiate its own trade agreements as a special administrative region of China.

In return, Serbian municipal structures will retain autonomy over matters like health, education and culture, though Kosovo wants to put its stamp on all university diplomas.

The bombings here came at a time when the two rival Kurdish parties have been trying to unite the divided administrations of the northern region to strengthen their demands to retain autonomy in that area.

A principal difference between the current and former umbrella units, Interpublic executives said, is that under Mediabrands the media agencies would retain autonomy and remain aligned with advertising and marketing agencies like the McCann Worldgroup (Universal McCann) and Draft FCB (Initiative).

Communities were able to mobilize the people (Reina 1996, 2009), change their names or join a municipality to retain autonomy (Gonzalez 1996).